Best Version for Cross Platform Compatibility?

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Howdy everyone! First time on here, I was on the IRC channel but it wasn’t quite getting my questions answered.

I was a big KiCAD user some ~8 years ago, and a couple friends use it. But some of us use windows and some linux.

What is the best version number to use so we can transfer files back and forth to work on them together without breaking things. This took a while to figure out last time, and when I checked into it a couple months back it seemed there just plain WASN’T a good cross-platform candidate.

Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!
-Abe.

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There is this here where you can get pretty much the same bleeding edge on windows as what the linux folks are running.

File format wise (exchanging work) there should be no difference between linux/windows for the last versions anyway, same goes for libraries of the symbols, footprints or 3D models.

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Awesome! I’d already installed build 7601 (BZR6156) - released today.

Anything my buddy finds that’s from the last few (days? Weeks? Months?) works then?

Application: kicad
Version: (2015-09-05 BZR 6156, Git 0a56afe)-product release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,GCC 5.2.0,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Boost version: 1.57.0
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON

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build 7601 is windows 7, the system this windows KiCAD had been compiled on afaik :wink:
The number you need to look for is BZR 6156.
From my own experience files are interchangeable from r5528 (first I used from that new site) up until the latest I got r6097.

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Future readers, be aware that these builds are now directly available on the official website:

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